Cash raised from such a levy could then be held in a reserve modelled on the Shetland oil fund, according to a speaker at a major conference in Inverness organised to restore momentum to the land reform movement.
Communities could once again follow in the footsteps of Assynt, Eigg and Gigha by buying their land, if a levy is charged on all of the power transmitted down the controversial Beauly-Denny power line.
Cash raised from such a levy could then be held in a reserve modelled on the Shetland oil fund, according to a speaker at a major conference in Inverness organised to restore momentum to the land reform movement.